What if I were to replace the word “habit” in the quote above with “OSS integration” or “OSS customisation” or “feature releases?”

The elegant quote reflects this image:

The chains of feature releases are light at t0. They’re much heavier at t0+100.

Like habits, if we could project forward and see the effects, would we allow destructive customisations to form in their infancy? The problem is that we don’t see them as destructive at infancy. We don’t see how they entangle.